Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

Overview

“In this lesson I will start defining the silhouette of our character using the pen tool, it is a technique that I learned to do to have a better control of the contours and the silhouette of the character itself, then I will start to give the first layers of color , without taking into account our ambient light to determine light and shade.”

In this video lesson German Gonzalez Ramirez addresses the topic: First layers of paint, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits. Perfect your digital illustration techniques and learn to tell stories through portraits.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson number 6 I will explain How to give the first layers. Here we will not take into account our ambient light yet, which is what will determine the tone of the lights and the shadows. We will use the Pen tool to give us a better silhouette. So let's see this lesson now. We are going to concentrate on painting our main character. We will give the first layers of paint. For this, I will hide our objects and I will leave our character alone to start building it. This is a technique that I use. Many people start painting and filling like this, from the brush, but sometimes they rema...”

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Course summary for: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (314)
• 4650 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (3h 13m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration